Ni Fan

Ni Fan grew up in a musical family in Peking, China. She got her first piano lessons at the age of four and started additional percussion lessons at the age of ten. From 2001 to 2007 she studied percussion at the 'Central Conservatory of Music' in Peking as a young student. Subsequently she did her bachelor degree studies with prof. Li Biao, which she graduated early with honors.

2010 Ni Fan continued her studies at the 'Hanns Eisler' academy of music in Berlin. She graduated in the master degree as well as in the postgraduate studies also early with honors and now teaches herself at the academy of music.

Ni Fan is award winner of the 'Jeju International Brass and Percussion Competition' in Korea as well as the 'Hanns-Eisler Wettbewerb für zeitgenössischer Musik'.
Her performances were rewarded, among others, repeatedly by the State Stipendium of China, the award of The German Academic Exchange Service, the Startup!Music prize of the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, scholarships of the Else-Neumann Foundation and the Yehudi Menuhin 'Live Music Now' Association Berlin as well as the Prix-Montblanc of the Montblanc Cultural Foundation.

She performs regularly as a soloist in Germany and Asia, among others with renowned orchestras and ensembles such as the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Nürnberg Symphony Orchestra and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin.

Lukas Böhm

Lukas Böhm began studying at the 'Hanns Eisler' Academy of Music Berlin while he was doing his Abitur at the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach boarding school. After graduating early with honors, he is now completing his studies as a scholar of the Berlin Philharmonics' Karajan Academy with Jan Schlichte as well as a post graduate student at the 'Hanns Eisler' Academy of Music with Li Biao, Franz Schindlbeck, Rainer Seegers and Jonathan Aner together with his duo partner Ni Fan – as the first percussion ensemble world wide in chamber music.

Böhm was award winner of the 'Concours international de timbales' in France and the 'Hanns-Eisler Wettbewerb für zeitgenössische Musik' in Berlin, before he won the renowned international 'Italy Percussion Competition' in 2010.
Since then he did concert tours in more than 20 countries of Europe, Asia, the USA and South America to festivals such as the 'International Mercedes-Benz Music Festival China', where the percussion duo 'DoubleBeats', founded together with Ni Fan, was presented as „Young Artist of the Year 2012“.

Lukas performs regularly with the Berlin Philharmonics, the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the state opera Hamburg, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and as a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie under famous conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Christian Thielemann, Mariss Jansons, Andris Nelsons, Riccardo Muti and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

His performances and achievements were appreciated with prizes and scholarships of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, the Ensemble Modern Academy, the Manfred Vetter Foundation for Art and Culture, the Richard-Wagner-Stipendienstiftung, the Marie Luise Imbusch Foundation as well as the 'Internationale Musikakademie für Hochbegabte Jugendliche in Deutschland' and others.

Currently, Böhm is scholarship holder of the Oscar und Vera Ritter-Stiftung Hamburg, the Yehudi Menuhin 'Live Music Now' Association Berlin and Frankfurt/Main and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
For „outstanding achievements in the field of interpretation“, the Oscar und Vera Ritter-Stiftung recently rewarded him and his duo partner Ni Fan with the 'Ritter-Preis'.